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By: Michael Batty

ISBN: 9780262548656
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 14th June 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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How we can invent--but not predict--the future of cities.


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By: Ryan Ellis

ISBN: 9780262538541
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An examination of how post-9/11 security concerns have transformed the public view and governance of infrastructure.


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By: Iain Sinclair

ISBN: 9780141014746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when the author sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. This book deals with the author's voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city.


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By: Joseph F. Coughlin

ISBN: 9780262049214
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"A guide to making sure that the services required for aging well are in place in communities, thereby making them into longevity hubs"--


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By: Alex Bonham

ISBN: 9781472144805
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 8th July 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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By looking at how different cities across space and time have sought to encourage and facilitate play, Bonham shows us how to conceptualise our own contemporary city as a game, and encourages us to become participants rather than spectators.


(Paperback)

By: Justin McGuirk

ISBN: 9781781688687
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Verso Books
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The Motorcycle Diaries for architects: how slums designers, maverick mayors and squatters are changing the future of Latin America


(Paperback)

By: Jamie Wang

ISBN: 9780262550932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"A critical and timely intervention into the human-centered, technocratic, capitalist modes of urban development that calls for new ways of re-thinking, re-seeing, and re-storying cities"--


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By: Richard M. McGahey

ISBN: 9780815734017
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Presents new frameworks, cutting-edge analysis, and innovative policy solutions for America's government, business, civic, and community leaders to sculpt a sustainable and supportable economy for older industrial areas. The unique focus on rehabilitating weak market cities outlines ideas for reshaping the role of public agencies, the workforce, business organisations, and technology.


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By: Duncan Mclaren

ISBN: 9780262533713
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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How cities can build on the sharing economy and smart technology to deliver a sharing paradigm that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability.


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By: Susan Handy

ISBN: 9780262546966
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"This book takes a critical look at the way of thinking that has shaped the US transportation system for the past century and explores the new ways of thinking that might actually make it easier for Americans - all of them - to get where they need to go. The book is part reflection, part history, and part introduction to the field, based on the author's years of experience in transportation"--


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By: Germaine Halegoua

ISBN: 9780262538053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2020
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.


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By: Andrew Ross

ISBN: 9781788730273
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Verso Books
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The story of Palestines stonemasons and the building of Israel


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By: Zachary B. Lamb

ISBN: 9780262549868
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"The story of twelve exemplary planning and urban design interventions illustrates a holistic framework for pursuing equity-centered urban resilience in the face of climate change"--


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By: Joyce A. Ladner

ISBN: 9780815733676
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Ben Green

ISBN: 9780262538961
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2020
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be smart enough, using technology to promote democracy and equity.


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By: Karen Chapple

ISBN: 9780262536851
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit.


(Hardback, 2nd edition)

By: Arnold Fleischmann

ISBN: 9781538197318
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A concise primer on urban politics and policy that highlights the ways in which politics and policies are shaped by the many different institutions, actors, and practices that exist in urban communities.


(Paperback)

By: Matt Hern

ISBN: 9780262534420
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon's systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood.


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By: James S. Gruber

ISBN: 9780865719323
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: New Society Publishers
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Building Community is a practical guide for local leaders working to build equitable, healthy, and sustainable communities. Featuring a chapter covering each of 12 Guiding Principles common to thriving communities, the book includes rich case studies and leaderships tools.


(Hardback)

By: John MacDonald

ISBN: 9780691195216
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)

By: Joan Busquets

ISBN: 9781939621528
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Oro Editions
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Part of the Redesigning Gridded Cities series of four titles, exploring the grid as a design tool.


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By: Raymond Green

ISBN: 9780643095335
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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This book looks at how changes due to unsympathetic development of the built environment and modification of the natural landscape are perceived to negatively affect the character of small coastal towns.


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By: John G. Stehlin

ISBN: 9781517903817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"This book explores how bicycle infrastructure planning, once a fringe concern of progressive environmentalism, has become a key horizon of urban development. Using case studies from San Francisco, Oakland, Detroit, and Philadelphia, it shows how bicycling has been redefined as critical to the competitive 21st century city, reinscribing race and class inequalities in mobility in the process"--


(Hardback)

By: John G. Stehlin

ISBN: 9781517903800
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"This book explores how bicycle infrastructure planning, once a fringe concern of progressive environmentalism, has become a key horizon of urban development. Using case studies from San Francisco, Oakland, Detroit, and Philadelphia, it shows how bicycling has been redefined as critical to the competitive 21st century city, reinscribing race and class inequalities in mobility in the process"--

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